Two children and seven adults have been reportedly abducted at Anguwar Kwankwashe in Suleja, Niger state. Two persons, it was gathered, however escaped from their abdutors. An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said the kidnappers invaded some houses and a hotel around 1:35am on Tuesday. Another eyewitness, Ibrahim Oga said: “They split into groups to attack homes from where they took their victims. “It was even the sound of their gunshot that woke me up. I walked quietly to check the window and discovered that the kidnappers, some of them even dressed like soldiers”. A vigilante, who preferred anonymity, said he…

Two Nigerians have been arrested in the United States for wire fraud and other offences involving $25,000 in unemployment benefits. Olushola Afolabi and Olugbeminiyi Aderibigbe were accused of conspiring with others to defraud the Illinois Department of Employment Security and the United States government through fraudulent unemployment insurance claims. They and their alleged co-conspirators used stolen identities to file unemployment insurance claims and transferred millions of dollars in unemployment benefits into bank accounts controlled by them, the U.S. government said in the indictment filed against them. “Using the funds in those bank accounts, members of the conspiracy purchased money orders…

Eighteen people, including a police officer, have been reportedly killed in attacks by bandits on five communities in Chawai chiefdom, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Reports have it that the attacks occurred Monday morning in Kigom, Kikoba, Kishisho and Ungwan Magaji communities. A resident of Kigom, who preferred anonymity, reported that the attackers invaded the community in large numbers, shooting sporadically. One person died in the attack, he added. Also, it was gathered that six persons were reportedly killed at Ungwan Magaji, six in Kikoba, one from Kigom and five from Kishisho. “The invaders destroyed property worth millions…

Police Service Commission (PSC) has suspended Abba Kyari, deputy commissioner of police, following US court documents linking him to Ramon Abbas, self-confessed international fraudster better known as Hushpuppi. Usman Alkali, inspector-general of police (IGP), had recommended suspension of Kyari to allow for an independent investigation of the allegations against the officer. Hushpuppi alleged that he bribed Kyari to arrest one Vincent Chibuzo, a co-fraudster. The Instagram celebrity said he gave the top cop money to arrest and jail “one of his rivals in Nigeria after a dispute over a $1.1 million scam on Qatari business people”. But Kyari denied any…